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- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
moment that launches a powerful idea or brilliant product. Managers can use these insights to form teams that create better ideas. “Much of innovation is premised on the idea that you should talk to other people to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
responsibilities. You wouldn’t give resources to people in your business who you think are likely not to succeed. But if you can transfer both values and financial assets from one generation to the other and the resources and skills to... View Details
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Drake Du | MBA
but in every challenge is a chance to envision a new way of thinking and of doing, and I am excited to join a cohort dedicated to bringing that vision to life. Tech areas of interest: ethics and safety, distributed systems, machine learning, human-computer interaction,... View Details
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Faculty | Information Technology
Faculty Harvard Business School (HBS) IT is a consultative technology partner that helps the School’s world-class faculty conduct path-breaking research, envision and execute new learning experiences, and leverage powerful tools that... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
team up with peers from other backgrounds. “Those who work across disciplines almost always come up with better and more powerful ideas,” says Datar, noting that the 30 budding entrepreneurs met regularly as a group in the i-lab to talk... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
In a more general context, these concepts became "people, opportunity, context, and deal." That turns out to be a powerful way of thinking about things. With this body of knowledge, we're able to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
While some find the idea of exchanging digital tokens puzzling, in many ways it’s nothing new—through the same type of technology that powers cryptocurrency, NFTs provide a sort of “digital deed” that we can use to establish ownership of... View Details
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- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
multinational that started out with a generic "international department," then set up country bases before trying to layer in global business units that placed the country managers in subordinate roles. The company then evolved to a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/11/missing-values-data-science-and-r/ Natural Language Processing (NLP) Python General Packages NLTK is a robust NLP package in Python. For an introduction and hands-on experience using the NLTK package,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
strategy, even though this is less efficient than generating electricity from a coal or gas plant. The company has to decide whether to stick to its waste management roots or expand into an opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of the Olympics—derives from the global recognition of the five... View Details
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, sold $315 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on "EDLP" (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
transactional, and integrative—although these stages are not necessarily linear, nor does every company move through each stage. What are the key factors that force (or encourage) companies to move from one stage to another? Austin: Moving from traditional philanthropy... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift Abstract—In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service companies. Academics have View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
so-called "enrollment crisis" in IS education, especially with the generation of "digital natives" who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment that compete... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
what does the term "big data" actually entail, and how will the insights it yields differ from what managers might generate from traditional analytics? Does Power Corrupt or Enable: Moral Identity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
which determines “horizontal market power,” and consumer inertia, which generates “dynamic market power,” creates a clearer picture of market power dynamics within a given market. This can inform companies... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
money on gift cards and provides a secure environment to exchange unwanted gift cards into cash. Superdome offers the first Building Integrated Photovoltaics worldwide to incorporate encapsulated CIGS thin-film on the surface of an insulated, eco-friendly composite... View Details